Chemicals in the Environment

Chemicals, Pesticides and Toxics Topics | US EPA

Asbestos · Formaldehyde · Hazardous/Toxic Air Pollutants · Lead · Mercury · Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) · Pesticide Chemicals.

Environmental Chemicals & Pollutants | Vermont Department of Health

Many chemicals and pollutants are naturally present in the environment, while other chemicals are created by humans for use in consumer, ...

Chemicals | European Environment Agency's home page

Hazardous chemical substances can cause serious harm to the environment and human health. Although emissions from many dangerous chemicals ...

Guidance on chemicals and health - World Health Organization (WHO)

Chemicals or groups of chemicals of major public health concern include air pollution, arsenic, asbestos, benzene, cadmium, dioxin and dioxin-like substances.

Chemicals Used on Land | US EPA

While chemicals in soil or on plants may be an initial pathway into the environment, it is the movement and concentration of chemicals through ...

Chemicals in our Environment and Body & the Importance of ...

Everyone comes into contact with environmental chemicals every day. Chemicals get into our air, water, soil, dust, and food. There are many natural and ...

Children's Environmental Health Chemicals of Special Concern to ...

These include pesticides, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), metals such as arsenic, mercury, lead, and cadmium, and ...

Safe and sustainable chemicals - European Environment Agency

The good news is that not all chemicals are toxic. The bad news is that some are. Fortunately, Europe has been working to reduce harm from the hazardous ones.

Chemical pollution: A growing peril and potential catastrophic risk to ...

Fig. 1. An overview of global sources and pathways of chemical pollution and its potential impacts on the environment and human health. Six major pathways of ...

Chemicals of Emerging Concern

Many CEC are chemicals that persist in the environment, are present in humans or other living organisms, and may have the potential to cause adverse health ...

Chemicals | Environmental Protection Agency

Some man-made chemicals can have effects that were not intended. These unintended impacts can harm the environment and our health and wellbeing.

What is chemical pollution? - ClientEarth

During manufacture, storage, transport and disposal, chemicals can leak into the surrounding environment. How big is the problem of chemical ...

How we talk about harmful chemicals in the environment - Nature

Environmental contamination is in the news more than ever. Shira Joudan introduces key concepts to talk about what happens to chemicals in ...

Chemical safety - World Health Organization (WHO)

It covers all chemicals, natural and manufactured, and the full range of exposure situations from the natural presence of chemicals in the environment to their ...

Protecting our environment from chemicals | EPA

You can make changes to help lessen the impact of chemicals on our environment to protect it now and for future generations.

National Exposure Report Home Page | NER - CDC

Click here for nationally representative data for population exposure to environmental chemicals.

Toxics - NRDC

Found in our bodies, food, homes, and the environment, toxic chemicals are pervasive and linked to myriad health issues, from cancer to hormone disruption.

Reduce the amount of toxic pollutants released into the environment

The US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) tracks the release of certain toxic chemicals into the air or water.

Toxic Chemicals in the Environment | Office for Science and Society

It may do this by disrupting our hormones, triggering cancer, causing heart disease, affecting brain development, or any combination of these.

Chemical Environment

Some chemicals, however, can undermine human health and development. Concerns about certain chemicals, such as arsenic, lead and mercury go back millennia.